Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):

  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Business Automation Workflow

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Better support for automated testing.

Automated testing would be a great addition to the product. Currently to autotest you have to use external definitions of tests, and call API's to run specific services. It would be great if we could create tests for processes, services, cshs and ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improvements for synchronous and asynchronous steps in process development

When developed applications in BAW we currenly can force an entire process to behave sychronously by ticking the box Optimize Execution for latency, in combination with Autoflow to nex task on the tasks. It would be great if these options could ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improve the Update Instance Variable API

It would be great if the Update Instance Variable API could update only a member of a complex object, and not the entire complex object. For us to externally first get the entire object, make a local change, and then call update, makes it more pro...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improved migrations for newly added intermediate events

When adding a new Intermediate event subprocess or a new intermediate event listener to an Activity, the intermediate event wont have a token for migrated process instances. Tokens can be injected through the undocumented api: This is not documen...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improved migrations for task content

When migrating tasks, the execution context for the task is unable to be modified, and tokens cannot be moved inside the task. This results in us having to "pollute" our code with loadEvents firing navigation events to force tasks to "reverse" in ...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improved migrations with custom services

When an instance is migrated, sometimes variables in the instance need their variables updated, or something else need to be performed on the instance. It would be great if we in the migration script could define a serviceflow, that would be calle...
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Remove System toolkits from showing up in list of Orphaned toolkit snapshots

We use the results provided by Performance Dashboard (SYSPERFDB) in Process Admin console to determine the orphaned toolkits for cleanup or maintenance. We have noticed that the System toolkits are showing up in the list. There is a chance that us...
12 months ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support for Servlet 3.1 on WebSphere 8.5.5

With structural libraries, such as SpringFramework evolving and in some cases have to be upgraded when facing vulnerabilities, WebSphere 8.5.5 is not supporting Servlet 3.1, which is compromising these updates on J2EE applications
almost 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 2 Future consideration

When upgrading BAW, Installation Manager should fail if file permission settings prevent the profiles from being updated.

I recently did an upgrade to BAW, and I ran into a situation where Installation Manager ended with warnings, saying " Configuration errors were detected during the installation." In a support case, we determined that this was because of our unusua...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

2 different "Add Case" form for different working groups

For the business needs our customer wants to use 2 different views for the "Add Case" page. So if groups "Managers" insert a new case they have to insert some certain fields. But if groups "Accounts" insert the same type of case thay must insert o...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 1 Functionality already exists

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